Apple today announced the all-new Mac Pro will be available to order starting Thursday, December 19. Redesigned from the inside out, the all-new Mac Pro features the latest Intel Xeon processors, dual workstation-class GPUs, PCIe-based flash storage and ultra-fast ECC memory.

Yeah but the mac pro case, heat flow, energy efficiency, and overall build quality can't be touched for any price.

If you want cases built that perfectly, with doors that slide and open smoothly for 5+ years, proper backlighting, and quietest it can be - no one is touching apple.

Non-mac people are still amazed at the way my 1999 G4 tower slides open with one click. True - somethings in mac's are not user upgradable, but everything that is is crazy easy to do.

I'd love to see the price on a PC case that even comes close to what Apple's new mac pro case offers.

I think mobile has finally taught us that what's on the outside surface and ports of a modern computer is at least as important as what's inside. They are all fast with lots of RAM these days - it's about usability, resolution, volume, max number of devices that can be connected, energy use, etc..

The Mac Pro performance could easily be replicated or surpassed for far less cost using off the shelf components.

In past I went did some homework before putting proposals to a client.

I found that ... by the time you have a properly built system with comparable components [ECC RAM, processors etc] and expansion capabilities; the much vaunted price gap with HP etc is usually negligible if at all.

I found that ... by the time you have a properly built system with comparable components [ECC RAM, processors etc] and expansion capabilities; the much vaunted price gap with HP etc is usually negligible if at all.

You don't need ECC RAM, Xeon CPUs or workstation video cards for multimedia work. Decent gaming hardware works just as well for a fraction of the cost.

However you do need a real Windows certified workstation for high level physical engineering and mathematical simulation because precision is an absolute must.